Gufier?
John McChesney-Young
panis at PACBELL.NET
Tue Jul 3 22:50:51 UTC 2007
At 4:58 PM -0400 7/3/07, Philip E. Cleary wrote:
>Someone on another list is trying to find out who or what a "gufier" is.
>The word appears in an act of the assembly of Maryland in 1696 in the
>phrase 'Merchants, Masters, Mates Gufiers Carpenters and Boatswains.'
It's an OCR misprint for an abbreviated form of "Gunners." See the
transcription of the 1696 Maryland act at:
http://tinyurl.com/2q3upk (7th line)
and then compare the .pdf image of the original document:
http://tinyurl.com/3xkv8c (single page; 156 KB in size)
showing the original word is "Guners", with a superscript line over
the "n" indicating the omission of a letter.
John
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